Jet2 to open a new base at Bournemouth Airport

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• ukpolak says:

  27 Mar27 March 13:27

  We flew to krakow with Ryanair back in Feb from Bournemouth and it was a doddle.

  Unfortunately the airline only opens check-in desks 2h in advance, you’re already queuing to board before the inbound plane has even touched down, and then boarding on the plane itself felt like a bit of a crisis (all the airline’s responsibility) but otherwise the airport experience itself was great.

  Nb we were tempted to get a lift to the airport but after the drop off / pick up fees, we ended up parking at c. £10 per day with a coupon code and it was a 5/10 min easy walk to the terminal.

• Traumahawk007 says:

  27 Mar27 March 19:04

  Appreciate flight prices generally haven risen for EU holiday and city locations but Jet2 flights are now extremely expensive, seems to be doing this as they want to take holiday bookings as more profit just like TUI. Fed up of almost daily emails with discount offers that mean nothing . Bottom line Ryanair aren’t everyone’s favourite but I personally find them spot on, reliable and on time.

  • Bernard says:

    27 Mar27 March 22:24

    Clearly Jet2 are better at filling their planes with higher profit holiday makers than just selling the seats. Who can blame them for running a successful business?

    • Bervios says:

      28 Mar28 March 10:31

      No one can blame them, though perhaps time to remove the ‘friendly low fares’ decal on their aircraft if they are concentrating on packages.

      • Rob says:

        28 Mar28 March 10:55

        They only release seats for ‘flight only’ when they are sure they can’t sell a package.

        Just to put Jet2 in perspective, it has a market cap of £3.1bn. IAG is only £8.5bn and I’d suspect BA is no more than £3bn of that (IAG Loyalty is worth around £2bn). This is an airline which only operates from the UK and has no presence at Heathrow or Gatwick except for a few ski charters in winter.

• Ramsey says:

  30 Mar30 March 23:12

  The big news for Jet2 this week isn’t this but actually the opening of their 11th base in Liverpool which has far more routes and aircraft than that planned for Bournemouth.

  I’ve found flight only prices less competitive, until I signed up to their email, as you get sent an extra 5% discount code regularly on top of the 15% members discount prices for flights only.

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